Ours to master and to own: workers' control from the commune to the present
Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 15 2017 16:26
A detailed account and analysis of instances of the working class taking control of production from the late 19th century onwards, by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness.
The Situationists and May 1968 – Miguel Amorós
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Oct 14 2017 16:08
A brief review of the role played by the situationists, the enragés, and the Council for the Maintenance of the Occupations (CMDO—composed of “about forty people”) in the movement of May 1968 in France, which the situationists claimed was an aborted “revolution”, but whose “only major victory”, according to Amorós, was “its survival in memory” for, “contrary to the assertions of the SI, the modernization of capitalism and the general proletarianization of the population … did not produce new, broader, and more intransigent forces of denial”, as the spectacle “subjugated its antagonists by manipulating their desires and satisfying false needs”, and its “mercenary thinkers finished the job”.
Strike and protests against Macron's employment law
Submitted by jef costello on Sep 12 2017 23:01
Four unions called a general strike for today against French President Macron’s new employment law, this is often referred to as Macron 2 or Macron XXL, because he was behind the last revision referred to as the ‘Loi El-Khomri’ and this new law is even worse.
The wonderful world of bossnapping
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 23 2017 17:22
A short introduction to and history of bossnapping - workers detaining their bosses in order to win demands - written by Evan Johnston.
Wichita students sit-in for US civil rights, 1958
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 19 2017 10:09
A short history of the first successful sit-in protest of the civil rights movement in the Dockum Drug Store in Kansas.
St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) work-in and occupation 1981
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 26 2017 11:53
Contemporary information about workers at a London hospital taking over their workplace in protest at bed cuts and closure.
The Chinese democratic uprising, 1989
Submitted by Steven. on May 7 2017 17:04
A detailed account of the national uprising for democracy which swept China in 1989 and was crushed after the Tiananmen Square massacre, written by George Katsiaficas.
A return to repression in Durban: activist shot in the back
Submitted by red jack on Mar 31 2017 10:51
After the conviction and sentencing of two ANC councillors for the murder of an Abahlali baseMjondolo activist in May 2016 there was a marked decline in the repression faced by Abahlali baseMjondolo. But the recent shooting of an activist in the Bhambayi land occupation seems to mark a return to repression.
Occupational hazards
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 28 2017 21:51
A compilation of writings put together by Past Tense on hospital occupations and work-ins in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The Occupation of Alcatraz
Submitted by Reddebrek on Mar 15 2017 19:27
A history of the occupation of Alcatraz island by the Group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) a coalition of native American activists and documentation published to explain the occupation.
